The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren took another hit today as Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr released evidence that appears to confirm Ms. Warren may have plagiarized at least three of the five recipes she submitted to the 1984 Pow Wow Chow cookbook edited by her cousin Candy Rowsey.

Mrs. Warren’s 1984 recipe for Cold Omelets with Crab Meat contains all four of the ingredients listed in Mr. Franey’s 1979 recipe in the exact same portion but lists five additional ingredients. More significantly, her instructions are virtually a word for word copy of Mr. Franey’s instructions from this 1979 article.

When I first read the verse from Proverbs: “A lying witness lies.”, I thought “Duh.” But now I understand. She is a liar. Of course, with 0bama and the Clintons and the rest of the liberal-progressive-socialist-Democratic leadership she is in good company. Duh.

Yes, there is a difference, but it has nothing to do with this instance. Copying something exactly, or almost exactly, and attempting to take full credit for it as your own work is plagiarism, whether the original was copyrighted or not. Copyright infringement is a separate violation with its own distinct remedies.

But every word that was published in a major US newspaper in at least the last half-century has been subject to copyright.

Whoa, you’re starting to sound a little bitter there. However, examining the good Law Professor’s published works* ** would seem reasonable, just to see what sort of “originality” she has displayed. Has she a doctorate? What does her dissertation look like?

“Law Professor” was a pejorative when Governor Palin applied it to Barack Husein 0bama, since he wasn’t a law professor. But Elizabeth is. Does she call herself “Professor E. Warren, PhD.”?

*That is, her published works besides the cookbook. Since 0bama appears to have not written his “autobiographies”, has Elizabeth in her recipes published more than our dear leader?

**Isn’t looking through professional journals to examine Professor Warren’s writing a bit akin to looking through her trash? Best done with latex gloves and a facial mask.

1. Yes. Going through Warren’s publications is one of the things I was driving at in my previous comment.

2. Has she a doctorate? What does her dissertation look like? (p)“Law Professor” was a pejorative when Governor Palin applied it to Barack Husein 0bama, since he wasn’t a law professor. But Elizabeth is. Does she call herself “Professor E. Warren, PhD.”?

Presumably your questions can be answered via online search. My understanding is that she went to law school. The J.D., like the M.D., typically does not require a dissertation in the sense that the Ph.D. does.

3. Since 0bama appears to have not written his “autobiographies”,…

Whatever. My practical concern is that some accusations, when not credible to swing voters, make it that much harder to defeat Obama.

No imagination at all. She could have easily switched out the crab for crawdad tails and called it a fusion dish using French condiments and techniques on a native staple. That’s what cooking is all about. My hillbilly stir fry uses Hunan lamb with scallions seasonings/techniques on local venison and ramps.

Well, most of Warren’s papers were before digital storage, so it depends on the specific institutions as to whether they created a digital archive of past theses and dissertations and articles, and in what form and how accessible it is.

But plagiarism was harder to check in those days, too, before the internet and search engines.

If it is even necessary at all. How does she have any credibility on anything after this? She’s been battered with it, and her reflex response to the hole she finds herself in is to try to dig her way out of it.

You have to be a truly committed blind-eye liberal to support her now. She’s no Kennedy. And even those guys never claimed to be anything beyond shanty Irish.

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